Today's News

If the Senate, as expected, passed the debt ceiling compromise Tuesday, a plan that easily passed the House Monday, Congress will have passed the largest debt limit increase in U.S. history.

And this is controlling spending?
That’s the way, apparently, the federal government sees it—including Congressmen Bob Goodlatte and Robert Hurt.
Their cute name for it: the Budget Control Act.
Really?

Bedford area Republicans nominated a slate of five candidates for local offices.

They endorsed Sheriff Mike Brown for a fifth term as Bedford County’s sheriff. Brown, first elected in 1995, will have completed 20 years in that office at the end of his next term if his reelection bid is successful. Brown said earlier this year that he will step down at the end of his next term.

Uzaifa Ahmad was only a few blocks away when the Twin Towers came down in New York City in September 11, 2001.
“I thought the world had ended,” she said of living through that experience. But having survived it, she confidently told her fellow summer school graduates last week, “We’re going to be OK.”
Ahmad was one of 11, 2011 Summer graduates from Bedford County Public Schools. Graduation exercises for them were held at Liberty High School on Thursday.

The 53-year-old Bedford woman who had more than 40 cats removed from her home in June will have to reimburse the organizations that have taken care of the cats since they were seized, but won’t face any jail time following action in Bedford General District Court Monday.

Carolyn Creasy was charged with two counts of animal cruelty or neglect, one count of failing to vaccinate for rabies and one count of owning more than five animals within the city of Bedford.

As the current discussion in Washington continues to revolve around our nation’s debt crisis, the House remains committed to passing legislation to change the spending culture in Washington, get our fiscal house in order, and create a better economic environment for job creation for 5th District Virginians and all Americans.